Finance Minister Arun Jaitley calls for dismantling trade barriers

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley calls for dismantling trade barriers for faster economic growth; while addressing 80th Session of Policy Commission of World Customs Organisation, Jaitley says trading across national boundaries is an economic imperative of the times.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the global economy needs to cut down trade barriers. He was addressing the 80th Session of the Policy Commission of World Customs Organisation, WCO, in Mumbai through video conferencing.

Jaitley also called for open borders, saying trading across national boundaries is an economic imperative of the times and that barriers to free trade should be dismantled. He said it is in the larger interest of every country to make sure that trade barriers are brought down to the extent it is possible.